Ancient Israel And Ancient Greece PDF Download
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Author | : John Pairman Brown |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The Israelites and the Greeks formed "the first free societies, cultivating rain-watered fields around a fortified citadel, recording their words about the human situation in a widely-accessible alphabetic script." With a keen eye for both comparisons and contrasts, John Pairman Brown investigates relationships between ancient Israel and Greece. In this intriguing and engaging work, he addresses historical, religious, linguistic, and cultural connections between these Mediterranean cultures. With erudition and humility, the author illuminates both Israelite and Greek writings and cultures. He brings a vast knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean and its languages to these studies, which will startle and entice the reader back to the ancient texts.
Author | : K. E. Fleming |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691146128 |
Download Greece--a Jewish History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
K. E. Fleming's Greece--a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the most part no longer exist and whose identity is a paradox in that it wasn't fully formed until after most Greek Jews had emigrated or been deported and killed by the Nazis. For centuries, Jews lived in areas that are now part of Greece. But Greek Jews as a nationalized group existed in substantial number only for a few short decades--from the Balkan Wars (1912-13) until the Holocaust, in which more than 80 percent were killed. Greece--a Jewish History describes their diverse histories and the processes that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. It also follows Jews as they left Greece--as deportees to Auschwitz or émigrés to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side. In such foreign settings their Greekness was emphasized as it never was in Greece, where Orthodox Christianity traditionally defines national identity and anti-Semitism remains common.
Author | : Elias Joseph Bickerman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674474901 |
Download The Jews in the Greek Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the Jews in the Greek age, charting issues of stability and change in Jewish society during a period that ranges from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the fourth century, until approximately 175 B.C.E. and the revolt of the Maccabees.
Author | : Milton S. Terry |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3849621782 |
Download The Sibylline Oracles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
Author | : Lawrence M. Wills |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-03-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725234246 |
Download The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lawrence M. Wills here traces the literary evolution of popular Jewish narratives written during the period 200 BCE-100 CE. In many ways, these narratives were similar to Greek and Roman novels of the same era, as well as to popular novels of indigenous peoples within the Roman Empire. Yet, as a group, they demonstrated a variety of novelistic innovations: the inclusion of adventurous episodes, passages of description and of dialogue, concern with psychological motivation, and the introduction of female characters. Wills focuses on five novels: Greek Esther, Greek Daniel, Judith, Tobit, and Joseph and Aseneth. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical works, he delineates the techniques and motifs of the Jewish novel, shows how the genre both initiated and distanced itself from nonfictional prose such as historical and philosophical writing, discusses its relation to Greco-Roman romance, and describes the social conditions governing its emergence and reception. Wills also places the novels in historical context, situating them between the Hebrew Bible, on the one hand, and subsequent developments in Jewish and Christian literature on the other. Wills sees the Jewish novel as a popular form of writing that provided amusement for an expanding audience of Jewish entrepreneurs, merchants, and bureaucrats. In an important sense, he maintains, it was a product of the "novelistic impulse": the impulse to transfer oral stories to a written medium to reach a more literate audience.
Author | : Louis Gernet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Anthropology of Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download The Victorians and Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Colin Hynson |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781435826212 |
Download How People Lived in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes everyday life among the ancient Greeks, covering family life, marriage, leisure, education, clothing, food and drink, warfare, religion, and funerals.
Author | : Christopher A. Rollston |
Publisher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1589831071 |
Download Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Dorothy Mills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Download The Book of the Ancient Greeks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A continuation of the author's "Book of the ancient world" and similar to it in scope and form. It covers the period from the coming of the Greeks to 146 B.C.